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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal
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On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:12:07 Sage Weil wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your
> > > series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists
> > > upstream. Unless there is a better way?
> >
> > Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e.
> > one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it
> > now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before).
> > That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid
> > more conflicts ...
>
> This sounds like the easiest solution to me. Something as simple as
>
> #define lock_flocks lock_kernel
> #define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel
>
> in fs.h?

Sounds fine to me. I don't think it's necessary but if you prefer to do
it, you can have my Ack.

Arnd


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